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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Necessary" data-source="post: 69398" data-attributes="member: 302">Lee,thank you for your admission, it takes more balls to stop a fight than to start one. But the prom queen always goes home with the winner, alas.Hahaha.No hard feelings.Anyhows, my take on the entire foaming thing is that IT WORKS. It works to "strengthen" and "stiffen" the hollow chassis by the distribution of incidental force over a wider area- ie. it's like standing on thin ice and laying belly down, both same weight, but someone's going to get wet. I have no doubt it works, I've sat in a close friend's car who has had the whole treatment done by the Desmond too. But in my opinion, I feel the fact that it works is what makes it so "dangerous", as now, the crumple zones will not absorb the forces in a crash, instead they will transfer those forces into the passenger compartment- a bit like the weakest link theory, if you know what I mean. In this case, the weakest link IS you. The crumple zones have now become "stronger" and more resistant to crumpling without a resultant increase in strength/rigidity of it's down/up stream components.Just a little side note; the said friend of mine who's had the entire chassis foamed (ala Lee), has recently suffered a rather catastrophic suspension structural failure, and you know what? He blames the foaming. Why? The foaming has stiffened his chassis to the extent that it does not "give" anymore, placing more load on various suspension components, wearing them out quicker and causing the failure that has happened. Probably. Because, remember, our cars were made and engineered to function as a whole... none more so than the chassis/suspension components, which is why the new E60 rides horribly on run flats (not designed for them) and why 318s on 19" bling bling wheels handle like elephants.</blockquote>

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